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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use lib qw(blib/lib blib/arch);

use POE qw(Session);
use POE::Component::IKC::Client;

my $name="Client$$";

### Send a request to the time-server
sub server_io
{
    my($kernel, $msg)=@_;
}

### Called when we connect to the time server
sub create_me
{
    print "Creating session...\n";
    POE::Session->new(
        _start=>sub 
        {
            my($kernel)=$_[KERNEL];
            warn "_start";
            $kernel->sig('USR1', 'hup');
            $kernel->alias_set('me');

            $kernel->post('poe://*/timeserver', 'connect', 
                            "poe://$name/me/pulse");
            $kernel->post('IKC', 'publish', 'me', [qw(pulse)]);
        },
        hup=>sub
        {
            my($kernel)=$_[KERNEL];
            print "Got USR1\n";
            $kernel->post('poe://Pulse/timeserver', 'disconnect', 
                          "poe://$name/me/pulse");
            return 1;
        },

        # output a . when the pulse is sent
        # output a + if it took longer then a second to get from 
        # the timerserver
        pulse=>sub { print ($_[ARG0] eq localtime() ? '.' : '+'); },

    );
}

$|++;
POE::Component::IKC::ClientLite->spawn(
            port=>31337,
            name=>$name,
            subscribe=>[qw(poe://*/timeserver)],
            on_connect=>\&create_me,
);

print "Running client...\n";
$poe_kernel->run();